Comment Re:Keep in mind, this is RockYou.com (Score 1) 499
To clarify here, I only reuse passwords for accounts which could not be used for anything too nefarious if they were hacked. My logins for more important sites (like
Comment Keep in mind, this is RockYou.com (Score 4, Insightful) 499
Is it even worth the effort of coming up with a secure password for that site? If I had for some reason found it necessary to register with such a vapid site I would have just re-used one of my low-security passwords (which many other sites have access to). It isn't too surprising that nobody cares whether someone else is using their account to steal their noisy, eye-burning flash videos. What is far worse is if people are re-using passwords from much more important sites. In this case, it doesn't matter if your password is a random string of letters, numbers and special characters.
Comment Spherical Torus? (Score 2, Interesting) 120
Those two surfaces are fundamentally different, topologically speaking. Would a spherical torus would look something like a 4-sided triangle? Or sound like one hand clapping?
Cosmic.
Comment Re:When they outlaw batleths.... (Score 3, Funny) 579
Clearly, you're being ironic, but you cannot out-irony the authorities.
Submission + - Pollock's fractal signature is NOT unique (arxivblog.com) 2
KentuckyFC writes: "In 1999, researchers claimed to have identified a unique fractal signature in the paintings of the American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. Now a re-analysis of the idea shows that the fractal signature can easily be reproduced by amateur artists and that even some paintings by Pollock fail to possess the supposed signature (abstract, pdf). That could have big implications for the discovery in 2003 of a cache of more than 25 unrecorded paintings attributed to Pollock that would be worth a lot of money if anybody could prove it."
